East Asian Capitalism

Andrew Walter is Professor of International Relations in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Melbourne. Until September 2012 he was Reader in International Political Economy at the London School of Economics and Political Science. From 2001-2012 Andrew was an Academic Director of the TRIUM Global Executive MBA Programme, an alliance between the LSE, NYU Stern School of Business, and the HEC School of Management (Paris), which was ranked #2 in the world in 2011 by the Financial Times. Externally, over 2009-2012 he served as a member of the Council of Chatham House, a leading British think-tank of international affairs and currently sits on the Academic Advisory Panel of The International Centre for Financial Regulation and on the editorial board of the Review of International Studies, the house journal of the British International Studies Association. Xiaoke Zhang is Professor at the Manchester Business School, the University of Manchester. His research interests are in comparative political economy, with a regional focus on East Asia. His recent publications include The Political Economy of Capital Market Reforms in Southeast Asia (Palgrave Macmillan 2011) and International Financial Governance under Stress (Cambridge University Press, 2003, with Geoffrey R.D. Underhill).